Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 149: Orstein's Triumph

As the powerful Knights of the Flaming Sun, in addition to their unparalleled bravery and excellent equipment, they also possess a powerful divine attribute under the protection of the Goddess of the Fiery Sun.

[Blinding Light: Divine Art: When they charge, the enemy they charge into has a chance of becoming blind, and their melee skill and shooting accuracy levels are reduced by 1.]

This spell only works when a Knight Order member charges, but the effect is truly powerful. It means the opponent's parrying and melee abilities are significantly weakened. A powerful Elite Knight, affected by this spell, is reduced to a mere Formal level.

This means that if a team of powerful Flame Sun Knights charges towards a dragon, even a God-chosen dragon will have its melee ability drop to champion level when it is hit, which will create conditions for other champion-level knights to kill it.

If this was a brutal red dragon, perhaps this ability alone would be enough for the Black Forest Lord to kill it. After all, once a red dragon is enraged, it will habitually rush forward recklessly, using its strong physique and sharp claws to tear its opponent apart.

The problem is, a sinister and despicable green dragon lives in the canopy of the blood pine forest.

How can the knights on horseback successfully charge towards the green dragon flying in the sky? This is indeed a tactical issue that requires careful consideration.

But no matter what, the arrival of the powerful Flame Sun Knights added an important weight to Su Li's victory.

Even when facing a powerful green dragon, these knights would stand firmly beside Lord Hessen and charge towards it fearlessly, so it was worth it for Su Li to tolerate their proud and domineering temperament and treat them warmly.

After everyone finished praying, Su Li said to Captain Constantine, "Your group has just arrived in our territory, so please don't rush to the base. Please allow us to show our hospitality and host a banquet for you. Also, Captain Constantine, please meet the dwarves in the territory. The demons to the north of the territory may require our concerted efforts to eradicate them."

The territory just had a good harvest today, and supplies are relatively abundant. It is a good opportunity to hold a lively banquet. Su Li now has food in his hands and is very confident!

Captain Constantine, upon hearing about the battle against demons, immediately became excited and said, "That's great! I'll meet with the dwarves right away to discuss tactics and how to defeat this demonic army."

Su Li immediately ordered the halflings in the manor to start preparing for the dinner. He also invited His Excellency Ron, the priest of the Church of the Goddess of the Fiery Sun in the territory, to join the banquet.

The halflings were very efficient, especially with plenty of food, and they quickly prepared a large number of pies.

Pie is the favorite food of halflings. The delicious smell of meat and the fragrance of steamed flour wafted through the Bauhinia Manor, and the members of the Flaming Sun Knights immediately became excited.

This trip was a good one! Halfling cooking, like the blacksmithing skills of their dwarven cousins, is renowned throughout the continent.

At the same time, Su Li led his men to the wine cellar of the manor, where they brewed fruit wine made from berries. Although it was not high-end brandy, it was finally a fine wine that the humans in the territory could enjoy!

The territory's most precious amethyst grapes were growing on vines. These vines weren't new seedlings, but had been transplanted by druids. They were already bearing abundant fruit. By this autumn, those exceptionally fine amethyst grapes would be brewed into luxurious brandy.

Such a luxurious bottle of brandy could be sold among the nobles for a considerable value exceeding the gold crown.

When Su Li walked out of the wine cellar carrying a bottle of fine wine, Hildurd was already waiting outside. Upon seeing Su Li, he immediately stepped forward to report, "My Lord, victory news! Commander Orstein has led his troops back to the territory safely. He is waiting inside the manor to report to you."

"Commander Orstein is back?" Su Li's eyes suddenly lit up. The commander of the territory led the territory's army into the gloomy blood pine forest to eliminate monsters. He was away for more than half a month!

Even though Su Li knew that this expedition would not be easy, with bumpy and dangerous roads, and the march would definitely take a long time, he still couldn't help but worry during such a long period of time, and he looked forward to the army's early return day by day.

After all, that was two-thirds of Su Li’s achievements since he traveled to this world!

If something goes wrong with this army, the Hessian Territory will not be able to expand outward for a very long time and can only retreat into its territory to recuperate.

It would take a long time to restore the size of the army and overcome the fear of the forest.

If any knight of the kingdom loses dozens of knights or hundreds of soldiers while conquering a forest, he may never think of conquering the forest again in his life.

Fortunately, Knight Orstein did not disappoint Su Li's trust. The troops under his command, trained by High Priest Rongen, were worthy of being the chosen army of God and successfully completed the goal of this battle.

Su Li immediately stuffed the wine into the arms of the attendants beside him and ordered them, "Move out all the wine barrels in the wine cellar. I want to give a grand banquet to my triumphant soldiers!"

Then Su Li climbed onto the back of the Death Claw. Now the Death Claw has become very huge!

Since there were many blacksmith shops and dwarf blacksmiths in the territory, Su Li was not afraid of wasting time and energy, and asked the dwarves to make a set of armor according to the current size of Death Claw.

Deathclaw usually wears this sophisticated set of heavy armor for adaptation training. After a period of adaptation, it can already fly with the armor on its back and can even hunt ferocious Uros cattle.

Many knights who first saw this griffin couldn't believe it was only four months old. Its size and ferocity were comparable to a one-year-old griffin in the wild! A two-year-old griffin can basically carry a man and kill the enemy, and fight bravely.

So when Death Claw is not wearing armor, it is no problem for him to carry Su Li and run.

Its massive size now surpassed that of a warhorse, and it galloped furiously, quickly carrying Su Li back to the main hall of the manor. To enhance the majesty of the territory, Hildurd had arranged six elite knights to guard the gate, all of them wearing exquisite star iron armor.

When the six knights saw Su Li, they immediately beat their chests respectfully with their fists and opened the grand door for Su Li.

Inside the hall, the knights of the Order of the Flaming Sun were already seated on both sides of the long table.

In the middle of their crowd were Knight Orstein and Captain Constantine, who were talking animatedly.

At this time, Captain Constantine's expression was already somewhat solemn and serious. As they went deeper into the territory, they found that the strength of this territory was indeed not to be underestimated.

In addition to a potential seed of the Chosen Knight and a priest who was once a Chosen Knight, there are actually three powerful champion knights in the territory.

They are also well-equipped, with a large number of knights equipped with rune vibranium armor, star iron armor and griffin mounts.

The Flaming Sun Knights were proud, but not arrogant. Strong strength was the easiest way to gain their respect.

They made a fair assessment and found that based on the opponent's current strength, it was not inferior to their Corona Knights at all. In the event of a life-and-death battle, they might even be stronger than their Corona Knights.

Therefore, after Constantine returned from Orstein, he respected the attitude of the Hesse Lords and paid more attention to them.

Especially when Knight Orstein presented a report to Su Li holding a griffin egg, everyone's eyes showed enthusiasm and desire.

"My Lord, we have fulfilled our mission and successfully wiped out the Centaur tribe in the forest," Knight Orstein said solemnly. "We have fought four battles, winning every one of them. In total, we have cut off 78 heads of Centaurs."

"When we finally defeated their tribe's camp, we found 180 dwarven pledge golds, rescued more than 40 dwarves, and a half-griffon egg that hadn't been eaten."

After listening to Knight Orstein's report, the members of the Flaming Sun Knights in the banquet hall exclaimed in surprise.

Many of them have fought against these terrible monsters. Qualified Centaur warriors are more than three meters tall. They are good at using spears, axes, throwing axes, bows and arrows and other weapons. They are veritable warlike monsters.

The fact that the territory army was able to defeat such a powerful Centaur tribe shows the combat effectiveness of the territory army.

And the harvest made them even more jealous, there was actually a half-griffin egg!

This is a precious treasure that is almost impossible to find anywhere else.

Without the Griffin Forest, no matter how many battles are fought elsewhere, it is impossible to obtain an unborn griffin egg.

Constantine could already foresee how fanatical the members of their Knights would be. If the Lord of Hessen was willing to sell this half-griffin egg, the wealthy members of the Knights of Flame Sun would certainly be willing to spend thousands of gold crowns!
A powerful mount is a knight's second life on the battlefield.

Su Li was also overjoyed at the army's victory and the spoils of war, and immediately ordered, "Hilde, have someone fish out a light-scaled fish from Lake Ravelin! Today, I want to reward our meritorious soldiers with a feast of the most sumptuous delicacies!"

"Light-scaled fish!"

"Light-scaled fish!"

Hearing Su Li's voice, the members of the Flame Sun Knights finally lost their composure and cried out in surprise.

Their eyes were filled with shock and joy.

This is a sliver fish. Even on the Duke's table, you might not see many of them in a year.

It is so precious that it is completely out of stock.

Even though the Flame Sun Knights were very wealthy, it was still difficult to buy a Light-Scale Fish.

They never expected that they had just arrived in Hesse and the lord here would treat them for free.

How many more surprises will this territory bring to the Knights?

The knights looked around at each other and saw the flickering light in each other's eyes. Perhaps this territory was the greatest opportunity for their knights to grow stronger, and it was the place where the gods guided them to bathe in divine grace!

(End of this chapter)